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Light0305/Light-skills Alternatives

AI agent skills for academic research workflow

An installable AI-agent skill pack (Claude Code / Codex / OpenCode) that drives a research, competition, or innovation project from vague idea through literature review, experiments, LaTeX writing, figures, and patent materials.

625PythonMITactive · last push 3mo agoGitHub

Drop-in peers

Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.

wanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleepGitHub

Markdown-only, no-framework peer; pick it when you want cross-model review loops and unattended overnight ML runs instead of Light-skills' human-confirmation gates.

ARIS ⚔️ (Auto-Research-In-Sleep) — Lightweight Markdown-only skills for autonomous ML research: cross-model review loops, idea discovery, and experiment automation. No framework, no lock-in — works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, or any LLM agent.

16.1k
Python
MIT
active1mo ago
HKUSTDial/Supervisor-SkillsGitHub

Chinese-language drop-in peer for advisor-style idea refinement and submission coaching; check its non-standard license before forking.

将博导十年科研经验炼化为可直接调用的 AI 技能。从 Idea 构思到论文投稿,你的 AI 科研副导师。

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Python
NOASSERTION
active1mo ago
Galaxy-Dawn/claude-scholarGitHub

Pick it when you also want the coding and experiment half of the loop and multi-CLI support, versus the seed's writing- and figure-centric skills.

Semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development. Supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode across ideation, coding, experiments, writing, and publication.

5.6k
Python
MIT
active2mo ago
zLanqing/codex-claude-academic-skillsGitHub

Choose it when you need MATLAB scientific computing and Word/PPT deliverables bundled in; it is thinner on patents and competition demos.

本仓库包含三个面向学术科研人员的Skills,覆盖从文献阅读、论文写作到科学计算的完整研究工作流。office-academic-skill 负责论文阅读报告与学术 PPT/Word 文档生成;research-writing-skill 提供论文写作、润色与审稿回复辅助;scientific-toolkit-skill 整合 MATLAB/Python 科学计算与期刊级图表生成。三个 Skill 专为中文科研用户设计,可在 Claude Code 和 codex 中一键调用。

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Python
MIT
active5mo ago
LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skillsGitHub

Same-install-model peer with 182 skills; choose it when your work needs bioinformatics or drug-discovery skills beyond the seed's scope.

A curated, multilingual library of 182 installable AI agent skills for end-to-end academic research—spanning literature discovery, scientific writing, grant development, bioinformatics, drug discovery, clinical research, machine learning, and data analysis.

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Python
MIT
active3mo ago
Imbad0202/academic-research-skills-codexGitHub

Codex-native peer covering research-to-finalize; pick it if your stack is Codex-first and you want explicit human-in-the-loop checkpoints.

Codex-native Academic Research Skills suite for human-in-the-loop academic research workflows

9.4k
Python
NOASSERTION
active2mo ago
Imbad0202/academic-research-skillsGitHub

The most widely adopted Claude Code peer for the same pipeline; choose it for a polished four-stage flow, but verify its non-standard license.

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize

48.0k
Python
NOASSERTION
active1mo ago
Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsGitHub

Model-agnostic skill library; pick it when you want ML-engineering and research skills beyond the seed's academic-writing and figure focus.

Comprehensive open-source library of AI research and engineering skills for any AI model. Package the skills and your claude code/codex/gemini agent will be an AI research agent with full horsepower. Maintained by Orchestra Research.

12.6k
TeX
MIT
active4mo ago

Same job, different approach

Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.

SakanaAI/AI-ScientistGitHub

A runnable Python framework that executes the whole idea-to-paper loop unattended; choose it over composable skill files if you can live with 9-month-old code and a non-standard license.

The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery 🧑‍🔬

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Jupyter Notebook
NOASSERTION
slowing10mo ago
aiming-lab/AutoResearchClawGitHub

Hands-off idea-to-paper autonomy with no per-step checkpoints; take it when you want a pipeline to run, not prompts that ask you questions.

Fully autonomous & self-evolving research from idea to paper. Chat an Idea. Get a Paper. 🦞

14.4k
Python
MIT
active2mo ago
SakanaAI/AI-Scientist-v2GitHub

Agentic tree-search variant of the same autonomous pipeline; a heavyweight Python system you execute rather than skills you install.

The AI Scientist-v2: Workshop-Level Automated Scientific Discovery via Agentic Tree Search

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Python
NOASSERTION
slowing10mo ago
SamuelSchmidgall/AgentLaboratoryGitHub

Self-contained end-to-end research pipeline; only worth swapping if you accept ~13-month-stale code and want a framework over composable skills.

Agent Laboratory is an end-to-end autonomous research workflow meant to assist you as the human researcher toward implementing your research ideas

5.8k
Python
MIT
slowing1.2y ago
OpenNSWM-Lab/FAROSGitHub

Blueprint-driven runtime that orchestrates the pipeline; take it when you need a scheduler for long autonomous runs rather than interactive skills. No license declared.

A blueprint-driven AutoResearch runtime for orchestrating AI research workflows from idea generation and experiments to paper writing and peer review.

3.0k
Python
none
active2mo ago
OpenRaiser/NanoResearchGitHub

Autonomous research assistant runtime; pick it when you want an agent that runs the study itself rather than guided skill steps.

🦞+🔬 NanoResearch: The Autonomous AI Research Assistant

1.4k
Python
MIT
active2mo ago
mims-harvard/AutoScientistsGitHub

Self-organizing agent-team runtime for long-running experimentation; use it for continuous autonomous runs, not interactive authoring help.

AutoScientists: Self-Organizing Agent Teams for Long-Running Scientific Experimentation

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Python
none
active5mo ago
jimmc414/KosmosGitHub

Claude-Code-driven reimplementation of the Kosmos paper for autonomous discovery; paper-specific and six months stale.

Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery - An implementation and adaptation to be driven by Claude Code or API - Based on the Kosmos AI Paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02824

586
Python
none
active7mo ago

Older generation, or narrower

An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.

pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflowGitHub

A LaTeX/Beamer + R Claude Code template for econ-style papers; narrower and more personal than the seed's full workflow.

A ready-to-fork Claude Code template for academics using LaTeX/Beamer + R. Multi-agent review, quality gates, adversarial QA, and replication protocols.

1.5k
HTML
MIT
active2mo ago
Spark-To-Paper-Skills/paperjuryGitHub

Pre-submission adversarial review only; add it when the missing piece is a reviewer verdict, not general research workflow.

Pre-submission AI review stress-test for research papers. A Claude Code skill: review, verdict, revise, verify.

1.0k
JavaScript
MIT
active2mo ago
Adkid-Zephyr/anti-defensive-writing-SkillGitHub

A single-principle prompt pack for prose style; far narrower than the seed, useful only for stripping defensive hedging.

极致轻量|阻止论文的防御性写作 | Anti-defensive writing for academic papers — 学术写作原则 Skill + prompt pack (CN/EN)

1.4k
MIT
active1mo ago
lishix520/academic-paper-skillsGitHub

Planning-and-composition skill pair only; narrower than the seed and last touched 9 months ago.

Systematic framework for planning and writing academic papers using Claude Code. Includes strategist (planning) and composer (writing) skills with quality checkpoints.

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Python
MIT
slowing10mo ago
brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-SkillsGitHub

Journal-targeting skill packs; use it when venue formatting and submission checklists are the gap, not the whole research workflow.

Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的 Claude Code/Codex 期刊技能包,从选题、识别策略到表格规范与审稿回复全流程,助你快速发论文。

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Stata
MIT
active1mo ago

End-user tools

Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.

delibae/claude-prismGitHub

An offline-first desktop writing workspace bundling LaTeX, Python and skills; adopt it as an app, not as skills dropped into your repo.

An offline-first scientific writing workspace powered by Claude. LaTeX + Python + 100+ scientific skills all running locally.

1.8k
TypeScript
MIT
active3mo ago

Listed as an alternative to

These projects were analysed and named Light-skills among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how Light-skills rates them is a separate judgement, made when Light-skills is analysed in its own right.

Imbad0202/academic-research-skillsGitHub

calls Light-skills “choose for a general research/competition/innovation skill pack that also covers academic work”

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code: research → write → review → revise → finalize

48.0kPythonactive